cost of living in Lapland?

[Gustaf]

Better off going to Thailand.

Eastern Europe, better -- the fantasy of taking the 16 year old peasant girl straight off the farm.

how do you get her to lose the restraint?  a frightening number of heterosexual relationships are not partnerships between equals, I learn this every day canvassing, and the nature of this particular fantasy would only serve to exacerbate the effect.

say everything works out: I get my $1m, hide it sufficently to keep it from governments and whoever else, and 'acquire' a reverse-mail-order bride, call her Alicja.  she's a virgin, of course, or at least that is what I am sold and I make no move to falsify it.  everything goes well, I'm in backwoods Poland, cheap vodka reigns, the world-weary bearded Tweed and Alicja, who went from 100-hour weeks of backbreaking labor to this strange life of leisure in no-time.

...I see her as timid, avoiding my glance, blushing furiously.  so anxiety-ridden she can't boil pasta correctly.  always willing to give in to my advances, but never daring to initiate any of her own... what I would do, for just that once!  for Alicia, to desire me, not to need me, but to desire me!  and to draw her ire in a matter!  when I cross her, for her to call me on it!  for her to be FURIOUS at me, the man who saved her from a life of anonymous ruin!  and then to cuddle with her after we've made-up, to see a tired, satisfied, knowing and calm gleam emanating from her eyes, knowing she has something on me, too...

Sorry to burst the bubble, but you don't import wives from Poland, it isn't sufficiently anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist to develop the level of poverty and inequality required for such an industry to flourish. Russia or the Ukraine are better bets.

That is, on the other hand, common. Lapland is filled with sad and lonely men, left behind by women who go to university and move to the cities. Those men often import wives from East Asia or Eastern Europe. So you'd fit right in.

[Gustaf]

I like Tweed's tale, and as usual Gustaf has no idea what he's talking about.

I see your point Tweed, if you prefer the whites you'd be better off in eastern Europe (though technically they're Slavs, not sure if that is a 'white' in the strictest sense, but whatever). 

However, if your fantasy is about some girl in poverty/backbreaking labor, I think you'll find those all over the United States, if you just look around.  Perhaps your Romantic Tourism can be accomplished at the Wendy's Drive Through just as easily as in the lapland.

With all due respect, I know how to import wives into my own country.

Johan, I'm not hating on Skåne (I have a separate set of prejudices for you guys!). Don't be such a Centerpartist about looking down on rural people.

Tweed, though this is not about politics, considering Russia to be capitalist is quite amusing. A country where the state will imprison the wealthy in order to seize their assets is not a free market society, nor anything close to it.

Regardless, you want to exploit the poor without asking questions about where they come from. I can respect that as long as you don't pretend to have any kind of social conscience about it. That's when it becomes offensive and forces me to mock it. If you and Opebo could be honest about being evil reactionaries I wouldn't give you such a hard time, you know.

[Gustaf]

To be fair, Tweed, I am not really certain if people here are capable of 'abstract thought'.  I mean, of course some are, but one can never tell for sure if they're pretending, or just 'going through the motions' without really feeling it. 

I suppose Eastern Europe is famous for such things - the Slavic Soul.  If that's your cup of tea.  How do you suppose they are on the issue of hygeine though?

Anyway, I envy you your youth, your high expections, and most of all your potential inheritance.  I have long anticipated something in that vein, but the longer I wait, the more I doubt.  Tweed, let me ask you this -  have you ever seen the movie Strangers on a Train?

The Slavic Soul sounds like an inherent contradiction.

Opebo, given your implied proposal a more apt question might be whether YOU have actually seen Stranger on a Train all the way to the end?

[Gustaf]

I want to add this as a comment on Opebo's scheme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LPtaWfF2W0